That said, there are some things you should remember

It's partly the job of scouts, parents, and scout leaders to protect the privacy of troop members. Here are a few simple guidelines you should follow to keep your troop data private and secure.

Don't create a single "leader" or "admin" account and share it with other leaders. Create separate accounts for each person who uses TroopTrack.

These generic administrator accounts are a security problem and users should never share username/password information with anyone else.

Generic accounts also make it hard for us to do support for your account... since there isn't a real name under the account owner it is harder to verify the identity of anyone claiming to be an administrator.

Make sure you assign the right access levels and privileges to your users.

Don't add users you don't know.

Don't use the "remember me" login option on public computers.

Will I always be able to access my data?

We do our best to make TroopTrack available at all hours. Planned outages are rare, but when they do happen we announce them on the Product Updates page (accessible by clicking the little bell at the far right of the top black bar), and on our Facebook page. In the past year TroopTrack has been down for less than four hours total.

How can I back up my TroopTrack data?

We've created several reports that troop leaders can use to back up TroopTrack data. The report you want to use depends on what exactly you want to back up.

If you want a backup of all of a particular youth's achievement records, go to the youth's profile, click the Reports button and choose whether you want the Detailed report or the Summary report. Both reports list Achievements earned, hours of service, miles hiked and canoed, nights camped, and leadership data. The Detailed report also includes partial achievements and the dates of all the requirements met for the achievements. You can also email the report to someone else in the troop; this will email the detailed report.

If you want a backup of a your whole troop, there are two reports that take care of most everything: the Troop Achievement Report and the Member Report. These are both big reports, so instead of dislplaying them in the browser we send them to your email in the format of .CSV spreadsheet, which can be opened in Excel, Numbers, and other spreadsheet programs. The Troop Achievement Report lists every completed achievement that every youth in the troop has earned, along with the date the scout earned the achievement. The Member Report lists names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and such data for every member of your troop.

To get to these reports, click the Quick Nav button in the top black bar, and then click Reports. This causes a box to drop down listing all the reports available to you. Alternatively, you can click Manage-->Reports, which shows a similar list of all your troop's reports.

We've found that sometimes these reports are messed up in the process of being emailed. In any case, the generated report will be saved under your Files tab on your user profile after you request the report. You can always access these reports here.

If you want further backups, you can also use the Participation Book to create a .CSV export of your troop's activities. We also have a similar Training Book, a Badge Book, and a Money Book, each of which can be used to create custom .CSV exports of your troop's activities.

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